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The Mikado is a triumph--it would be the Savoy's biggest hit--but there's no transformation in the lives of its makers.
I saw a D'Oyly Carte production of The Mikado in the late '70s: It was played fast and to the groundlings and made me never want to see a G&S opera again.
And Leigh's technique of leaping back and forth between the finished Mikado and painstaking scenes of rehearsal has magic in it: You're watching straw, then gold, then straw, then gold.
The joke of The Mikado is that its Japanese lords are thinly disguised English bureaucrats; the joke of Topsy-Turvy is that the opera's English performers seem culturally incapable of playing Japanese.
What exactly fired Sullivan up about doing The Mikado ? What was different about this collaboration?